| Artist | Andrea du Plessis | Resides | South Africa |
| Website | andreadp.co.za | Medium | Oil |
| Press | andreadp.co.za/press | adplessis@gmail.com | |
| Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook | Themes | Nature The sublime experience Romanticism Spiritual alchemy Esotericism Pantheism Hybridity Interconnectivity with the natural world Jungian psychology Surrealism Metamorphosis |
About the artist
Andrea du Plessis is a South African oil painter currently based in Cape Town, whose work engages with contemporary surrealism and new romantic interpretations of landscape, drawing on visionary and ecological themes.
Andrea holds a Cum Laude degree in Multimedia Digital Visual Arts and maintains an ongoing interest in new media as an expanded dimension to her practice. As the 2021 winner of the prestigious Sasol New Signatures Award, South Africa’s leading award for emerging artists, she has exhibited in both local and international exhibitions. Her work is held in private and institutional collections and featured in both local and international publications.
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
Andrea began making art out of a desire to depict nature as a living, intelligent, and healing presence. Influenced by Romantic notions of the sublime, pantheistic beliefs, and a lifelong connection with horses and animals, she create symbolic environments where mythic and ecological narratives unfold. Horses appear as layered symbols within these spaces, reflecting personal experiences of healing and transformation shaped in part through equine therapy. Through themes of inner alchemy and transcendence, she use painting to process personal change and imagine futures where humans and animals exist harmoniously within shared ecosystems.
In her multimedia practice Andrea currently focus primarily on highly detailed oil painting, drawing on classical techniques inspired by the Old Masters. Alongside painting, she maintains an interest in new media, occasionally using augmented or virtual reality to create immersive extensions of the work.
Andrea’s paintings depict animals and figures moving through symbolic environments between classical landscape traditions and contemporary surreal imagery, inviting reflection on interconnectedness, balance, and healing.
Press
Andrea du Plessis has featured in a number of local and international publications, such as Art Times, Suboart Magazine, JAAMZIN Creative International Arts Magazine, SABC News, News24, ARTGO and The Sunday Times, to name a few.
Upcoming Exhibitions
| When | Exhibition | Gallery |
| August 2026 | Group exhibition: “Faithful“ | Quirky Fox Gallery Taranaki, New Zealand |
| August 2026 | Group exhibition: “20th Anniversary Exhibition“ | Corey Helford Gallery Los Angeles, USA |
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Education
2021 (BA) Multimedia Digital Visual Arts (Cum Laude), University of South Africa, South Africa
2010 Therapeutic Arts (Post Grad Diploma), Tobias School of Art & Therapy, West Sussex, United Kingdom
2000 (BA) Fine Arts, University of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Fever of a Dream, DAOR Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
2022
Supernature: Simulacra, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Bubblegum Dystopia, Quirky Fox Gallery, Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand
Imagine, Nanny Goat Gallery, Portland, Oregon, United States
Art Collector’s Starter Kit XI, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
2025
Dreamland Awaits, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
Wild Card, Nanny Goat Gallery, Portland, Oregon, United States
Steadfast Steed, Trent Gallery, Pretoria
Romancing the Everyday, Quirky Fox Gallery, Taranaki, New Zealand
Dystopia to Utopia, Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
WOMXN, Hugo Modern Art, Cape Town, South AfricaTwo/Too/To – Ink Box Art, Cape Town, South Africa
2024
Artology, Rupert Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Bubbles: Exploring Fragility and Fluidity, The Viewing Room, Pretoria, South Africa
Bandi Walk: One Step Closer To Our Earth, The Korean Cultural Center, Pretoria, South Africa
PS Show 2024, Nucleus House, Portland, Oregon, United States
2023
Autumn 2023, DAOR Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
To Embrace The Shadow Is The Journey Of The Sun And The Soul, The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Spring, Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
Being and Becoming: A celebration of 150 Years of Unisa, UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
2022
75th Birthday Exhibition, Association of Arts, Pretoria, South Africa
2021
Sasol New Signatures Finalist Group exhibition – Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
10th International Triennial of Graphic Art Bitola 2021 (virtual exhibition)
2019
Weapons of Mass Seduction, Art@Africa Clocktower Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2018
Art B 20 x 20, Art Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa
2017
Opening Launch, Ahem Art Collective, Cape Town, South Africa
Homage to Tretchikoff, Ahem Art Collective, Cape Town, South Africa
Sanlam Portrait Award Top 100, Michealis Gallery (UCT), Cape Town, South Africa
2016
Cabinets of Curiosities, Untitled Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
Bestiary – Group exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa
The Persistence of Memory, Untitled Studios, Cape Town, South Africa
Nuances in a Narrow Spectrum version 2.5 – with Peter Mammes, Luvey ‘N Rose Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
